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Olympic Rings

Introduction

This report aim to illustrate Olympic Medalist winners throughout the years. This is done by creating different tables, plots and a bar animation.

The rekkefølge of the report is as follows

1. Table for total amount of medals won
2. Plot showing amount of events split into winter and summer olympics
3. Table illustrating the most-winning countries
4. Word clouds representing the frequenzy of medals for all medals combined and for each type of medal separately
5. Plot showing amount of gold medals won per sport
6. Table for most-winning country in a single sport
7. Table illustrating the highest participation in a singe sport
8. Deep dive into the US: medals won over time
9. Table for top ten winning contestants
10. Plot showing the genders’ participation over time
11. Bar animation for gold medals over the years

NB

The used data sets are downloaded from Kaggle and contains medal winners from 1896 - 2014. We were unable to find datasets including the most recent olympics, thus the summer olympics from 2016 is not included.

1. Total Amount of Medals won

Total Number of Medals

Medal	Number
Bronze	10055
Gold	9929
Silver	9973

2. Amount of Events

3. Most-Winning Countries

Country	Total number of medals	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Contestants
United States	5238	2402	1571	1265	5238
United Kingdom	1799	580	632	587	1799
Germany	1665	589	504	572	1665
France	1548	444	526	578	1548
Italy	1488	534	473	481	1488
Sweden	1477	476	496	505	1477

4. Word Clouds

Combined

This plot illustrates all medals combined

From the word cloud, we see that the US is the most winning nation, and that their lead in number of medals won is substantial.

Gold

This plot illustrates gold medals

The US has a substantial larger number of gold medals compared to the rest of the countries.

Silver

This plot illustrates silver medals

Bronze

This plot illustrates bronze medals

Compared to gold and silver medals, the distribution of bronze medals is more even among the different countries.

5. Gold Medals per sport

6. Most Winning Country in a Single Sport

Most Winning Country in a Single Sport

Event	Country	Medals won	Total number of medals	%
Basketball	United States	318	746	0.426
Ice Hockey	Canada	359	1215	0.295
Ice Hockey	United States	280	1215	0.230
Hockey	Netherlands	249	1297	0.192
Ice Hockey	Sweden	218	1215	0.179

The table shows which country which has won the most country in a single sport percentage wise compared to the total amount of medals given.

The table shows that the US has won the most medals in a single sport, which is Basketball. In this sport, they account for 42,6% of the medals.

7. Highest Participation in a Single Sport

Table: Which country participates most in a single sport?

Country	Sport	Number of Events
United States	Wrestling	54
United States	Athletics	44
United States	Shooting	41
Norway	Skiing	40
Sweden	Wrestling	40
Japan	Judo	39

(Score given in absolute numbers)

The US participates the most in a single sport, which is Wrestling.

Not surprisingly, Norway is the country with the highest participation in skiing

8. Deep Dive into the US:

Since the US has won the most medals both overall and in a single sport (percentage wise), and is also the country with the highest participation in a single sport, a deep dive is interesting.

The plot showcases the development of number of medals for the US. There is a somewhat similar pattern for the different types of medals. Gold medals (green line) most often represent the most attained medal type through time.

The plot also illustrate:

• Peak in 1905
• Rise in number of gold medals from 1980

9. Most Winning Contestant

athlete	sport	medals
PHELPS, Michael	Aquatics	22
BJOERNDALEN, Ole Einar	Biathlon	13
MANGIAROTTI, Edoardo	Fencing	13
ONO, Takashi	Gymnastics	13
COUGHLIN, Natalie	Aquatics	12
DAEHLIE, Björn	Skiing	12
KATO, Sawao	Gymnastics	12
NEMOV, Alexei	Gymnastics	12
NURMI, Paavo	Athletics	12
THOMPSON, Jenny	Aquatics	12

The table shows that Michael Phelps is the most winning athlete, with 22 medals. Both Ole Einar Bjørndalen and Bjørn Dæhlie are among the top winners, with respectively 13 and 12 medals each.

(Anno 2020 Pelphs has a total of 28 olympic medals, still reigning as most winning athlete)

Michael Phelps

10. Participation Development by Gender

Like other parts of society, the olympic games excluded female participation for quite some time. The following plot will demonstrate the gender’s participation development through time.

From 1900, female participation started rising. However, it would take almost 96 years before the participation of the genders would represent about 50% of the events each.

11. Bar Animation for Gold Medals over the Years

Top 10 countries

The End